US: Actor Martin Sheen quotes Rabindranath Tagore during climate change protest, wins hearts of Indians

In a touching speech, Sheen quoted Tagore's poem- ‘Where The Mind Is Without Fear’.

The incident occured during the Fire Drill Friday protest in Washington city.

Sheen's emotional video has gone viral now on the social media.

In the weekly climate action protest event organised by actor Jane Fonda, Sheen and Golden Globe-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix attended on Friday.

The actors were briefly detained by the police but later released.

Fire Drill Fridays, the name of Fonda's weekly initiative, confirmed to CNN that the two actors were arrested this week.

The US Capitol Police verified that 147 people were arrested in Friday's protest, but did not provide a list of names. They were all charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding, a spokesperson for the department told CNN. 

Indian netizens touched:

Voice of ram tweeted: " This happened yesterday. Martin Sheen reciting Rabindranath Tagore is a thing of beauty."

Shivam Vij, another Twitter used, posted: "Martin Sheen recites Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Where the mind is without fear.’"

Another Ajay Kamath said: "Most Indians are thrilled at the video clip of Martin Sheen quoting Tagore. Most Indians should also think deeply about when last our minds were without fear and our heads were held high."

Journalist Ayaz Memon remarked: "Martin Sheen reciting Tagore will leave you shaken and stirred."

Tagore's poem ‘Where The Mind Is Without Fear’ is part of his work Gitanjali. It was Gitanjali that had won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.